Prabhupāda: So one must give service. Simply to feel, "I belong to Kṛṣṇa's family" and doing nothing for Kṛṣṇa, that is not . . .
Sudāmā: That's not good.
Prabhupāda: That's not good. That is not good. That means he'll . . . very soon he'll again forget Kṛṣṇa. He'll again forget.
Sudāmā: Actually, the other element is so powerful. These people here, because, even though they are part of Kṛṣṇa's family, but because they have forgotten, then we become influenced by their forgetfulness.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Forgetfulness means māyā.
Sudāmā: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Māyā is nothing. It is a forgetfulness. That's all. It has no existence. Forgetfulness, it does not stand. But so long it is there, it is very troublesome.
Sudāmā: I've been asked a question by some devotees sometimes that they don't feel happy. So even if they are unhappy mentally, should . . . they still should continue in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. I tell them, even if one is unhappy . . .
Prabhupāda: But you should show example. If you show example different way, how they will follow you?
Sudāmā: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Example is better than precept. Why you are living outside?
Sudāmā: Well, I . . . (break)
Prabhupāda: . . . last time I was so much deteriorated in health, I had to leave this place. That does not mean I'll leave the Society. I went to India and recuperated. Or came to London. That's all right. So health may be sometimes . . . but that does not mean we shall give up the Society. If my health is unsuitable here, I go. I have a hundred centers. And you'll not go out of this universe (laughs) for your health recouping. You have to remain within the universe. Then why do you go out of the Society?
(break) . . . Śrī Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura. We have to live with devotees. Why I left my family? Because they were not devotees. Therefore I come. Otherwise, in old age, I would have been comfortable. No. We should not live with the nondevotees, may be family men or anyone. Just like Mahārāja Vibhīṣaṇa: because his brother was not devotee, he left . . . left. Came, came to Rāmacandra. Vibhīṣaṇa. You know that?
Sudāmā: Yes.
Hṛdayānanda: So Prabhupāda, it says that a sannyāsī should live alone. That means only with devotees.